We head down to Michelin Star restaurant Unalome by Graeme Cheevers to predict the winner of Euros 2024 using cheese.
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00:00First of all, do you have any cheese jokes?
00:02What type of cheese can hide a small horse?
00:04I don't know.
00:06Mascarpone.
00:07So we've got Moleterno a trutufo on your left hand side.
00:10And then there's also Campoveja trufuto.
00:14Spanish is terrible.
00:15The Campoveja is the firm one to your right.
00:18And that one is aged for about five to six months.
00:21And raw ewe milk.
00:22There is also natural truffle throughout it also.
00:25And the slightly softer one on the left hand side,
00:28that was the Moleterno.
00:30So an Italian one, Sardinia.
00:32Eight to nine months.
00:33Also ewe's milk.
00:35But you can see it's a little bit softer
00:37and a little more intense with the truffle.
00:39Biffoli wins.
00:40Biffoli wins.
00:41That's an interesting looking cheese.
00:43Yeah, slightly different ones.
00:44So on your right hand side,
00:47we have an aged Gruyere, Switzerland.
00:50Aged for about 15 months.
00:52Usually a little bit hearty and quite nutty and buttery as well.
00:55And then on your left hand side is Alp Blossom,
00:57which comes from a sort of German Alpine region.
01:00So they use wild flowers and they kind of forage.
01:04So they change colour depending on the time of year.
01:06So you get that wild flower flavour coming through as well.
01:08The Swiss who were one of the favourites for the competition
01:11before they faced Scotland,
01:13who achieved a mighty triumphant draw.
01:16Okay, so Switzerland are through.
01:18They're quite different,
01:20but they've got a lot of history really as well.
01:25On the right hand side,
01:26we've got Doorstone from Hereford in England.
01:28It's a goat cheese, quite fluffy and zesty in the centre,
01:31a bit of ash on the outside.
01:32And the left hand side there is Minger,
01:34which Graeme just spoke about there.
01:36This is where things are getting interesting.
01:38Scotland versus England.
01:40Of course.
01:41It's got to be Minger for me.
01:42In England's defence,
01:44that's a lovely bit of cheese as well.
01:46But I think, yeah, Scotland's through.
01:50Okay.
01:51Right, you had one more cheese joke first before we go.
01:54What did the cheese say to itself in the mirror?
01:58I don't know.
01:59Hello, me.
02:01So two different ones there.
02:02We've got on the left hand side is an aged Comte,
02:07so about 30 months old.
02:08So that's a French one.
02:09Okay.
02:10Really nice, a little bit of salty
02:12and sort of nut and butter coming through as well.
02:15And we've got Prima Donna,
02:17which is a 12-month-old cow's milk
02:19coming from Holland as well on the right hand side.
02:22Personally, I think I prefer the French cheese.
02:24What do you think, Graeme?
02:25I'm the same.
02:26I'm going with the French.
02:27Okay, France.
02:28Vive la France.
02:29Vive la France.
02:30Okay, we're ready now for the quarterfinals of European cheese.
02:35Sorry to give a disappointing result for Switzerland,
02:38twice in two days, but it's going to be Italy for me.
02:42Italy for me.
02:43That truffle just kicks the cheese off.
02:45France and Scotland.
02:46I have to say France.
02:48What are you?
02:49I'm the same.
02:50More depth of flavour.
02:52France and Italy, they've made it this far.
02:55I think France is a champion of Euro 2024,
02:59as predicted by cheese.
03:03That's very good cheese.